OLD BALLAD UPON THE "WINTER'S TALE."

Some of your correspondents may be able to give me information respecting an old ballad that has very recently fallen in my way, on a story similar to that of Shakspeare's *Winter's Tale*, and in some particulars still more like Greene's novel of *Pandosto*, upon which the *Winter's Tale* was founded. You are aware that the earliest known edition of Greene's novel is dated 1588, although there is room to suspect that it had been originally printed before that year: the first we hear of the *Winter's Tale* is in 1611, when it was acted at court, and it was not printed until it appeared in the f…